Bottle-crowning machine



Dec. 39, M524 3,521,442

J. J. GAYNQR BOTTLE CROWNING MACHINE Filed OCT.. 28, 1921 2 Sheets-Sheet l Dec. 30, 1924. 1,521,442

J. .1. GAYNOR BOTTLE CROWNING MACHINE 4oVE Patented Dec. 30, 1924.

lUNITED STAT-ESY 1,521,442 PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN J. GAYNOR, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO COMMON SENSE CROWNER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

BOTTLE-CROWNING MACHINE.

Application filed October 28, 1921. Serial No. 511,034.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOI-1N J. GAYNOR, citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion'and State of Indiana., have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Crowning Machines, of which the following is a specification. f

This invention relates to bottle crowning machines and has for its object to provide various improvements whereby the crowning operation is effected in a more expeditious and satisfactory manner.

A further object of the invention is to provide the crowning machine of extreme simplicity, to the end that it is cheap and easy to manufacture, light in weight, strong, durable and efficient and not liable to derangement.

A further object of the invention is to provide a positive gear-driven timing device so as to insure the proper positioning of the bottles under the crowning heads to receive the crowns', and the invention also has for its object to provide novel means for automatically engaging and disengaging the bottle timing device from its positive gear drive. n i

rIhe invention further consists in the provision of a. positively driven timing device and in the provision for automatically engaging and disengaging the star wheel of the timing device from its driving mechamsm.

lThe invention furtherl consists of certain other novel details of construction and combinations of parts, all of which will be first fully described and afterwards specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate the preferred embodiment of the invention:

` Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a bottle crowning machine constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view of the bottle-receiving table and timing device;

Figure 3f is a vertical fragmentary sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4l is a perspective view of the star wheel;

Figure 5 is a planview of the timing device Aillustrating in dotted lines the position of the mechanism for locking the star wheel to its driving shaft in unlocked position, and t Figure 6 is an enlarged elevation of the timing device.

Like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several views, in which- 1 is an elevation of a bottle crowning machine constructed in accordance with this invention, the same embodying a plurality of crowner heads 2 rotatable around the vertical axis, the same being driven in any convenient manner, as, for instance, by a motor 3 and driving gearing 4, as shown in Figure 1. As will appear from the drawings, each of the crowner heads 2 is provided at its upper end with a pair of rollers 5 and 6 which operate on stationary cams 7 and 8, by means of which the crowning heads 2 are raised and lowered, as 'will be clearly understood from an inspection of Figure 1. Each ofthe crowner heads 2 includes a tubular member or body 9 having. a gib 10 which operates in a slot 11 in a cylindrical casing 12, by means of which construction the crowner heads are guided and' retained in proper relative position, as will appear from Figure 1.

Rotatable with the series ofv crowner heads is the table 13 and bottle positioning element or wheel 14, said element or wheel 14- having recesses 15 to receive the bottles so that the same will be directly under the crowning heads, as will appear from an inspection of Figure 1.

Adjacent to the rotatable table 13 is the bottle receiving table 16 (Figures 1 and 2), said table 16 being provided with a fixed outer guide 17 and a fixed inner bottle guide 18, said latter guide, however, being provided with a hinged portion 19 spring held as shown in Figure 2, so as to exert a slight pressure on the bottles to hold the same in the star wheel of the timing device, as will be apparent from an inspection of Figure 2.

2O indicates the timing device which includes an upper star wheel 21 and a lower star wheel 22, each of which is provided with recesses 23 to receive a bottle for the purpose of progressing the same onto the rotating table 13 under the crowning heads. The two star wheels 21 and 22 are iixed to a hollow shaft kor sleeve 24, through which shaft or sleeve 24' the solid driving shaft 25 vertically extends; while keyed to thedriving shaft 25 is a spur gear 26 driven by a similar @ear 27 on a shaft 28 (Figure 1).

As will appear from Figures 3, 4, and 5, the hollow sliaft o-r sleeve 24 of the star wheels 21 and'22 is provided with an opening 29 in line with a series of notches 30 in the vertical drive shaft 25 and, as will appear from Figure 4, the lower member 22 of the star wheel carries a dog 31, pivoted at 32 on the face thereof and spring held, as shown, so as to normally hold said do 31 within the opening 29 in the hollow shaft or sleeve 24 and in engagement with one of the complemental notches 30 in the driving shaft 25. Loosely mounted on the driving shaft 25 and disposed directly under the lower Vmember 22 of the star wheel is a collar 33 having on the periphery thereof a series of four equally spaced projecting lugs 34 and on the upper. face of said collar is positioned a vertical pin 35 which extends through a slot 36 in the lower member 22 of the star wheel, so as to engage the free end of the pivoted dog 31 in the manner as shown in dotted lines in Figures 2 and 5.

VPivoted adjacent to the said star wheel is a bottle-engaging lever 37 having two arms 38 and 39, .the lever 37 being spring held, as shown in Figures 2 and 5, so as to hold the arm 38 thereof directly in the path of movement ofthe bottles on the bottle-receiving table 16, the other arm 39 of the said lever 37 being normally held in engagement with one of the lugs 34 on the collar 33, as shown lin dotted lines in Figure 5. When the arm 39 of the lever 37 is in such engagement with a lug 34 on the .collar 33 it holds the vertical pin 35 of said collar 33 against the free end of the pivoted dog 31, so as to hold said dog out of engagement with the notches 30 in the drive shaft 25. It will thus be seen that when in'this position, the driveshaft 25 is disengaged from the star wheel of the timing device, so that rotation of the drive shaft 25 is not communicated to the said star wheel and the star wheel remains stationary while the drive shaft is rotated within the sleeve or collar 24. As soon, however, as a bottle on the bottle receiving Vtable 16 is progressedV into engagement with the arm 38 of the lever 37, said arm 38 is moved into position shown in dotted lines in Figure 2, throwing the arm 39 of the lever` 37 out of engagement with a pin 35 on the collar 33 permitting the pivoted dog 31 to enter a notch 30 in the drive shaft 25, thus connecting the star wheel of the timing device withsaid drive shaft, so that the movement of the drive shaft 25 is communicated to the said star wheel and the said star wheel commences to rotate and deposits the bottle engaging the arm 38 of the lever 37 into precisely the proper position on the rotating table 13 and into a recess 15 of the rotating star wheel 14 which,

- it will be understood, is directly under a crowning head. In this manner the bottles are positively delivered from the bottle receiving table 16 onto the rotating table 13k of the crowner head so that there can be no mispositioning of the said bottles with respect to the crowner heads. It will be also understood that inasmuch as rotary movement of the star wheel ofthe timing devicev is controlled entirely by the Vbottles on the bottle receiving table 16 and that the star wheel of the timing device does not rotate unless a bottle is first progressed into engagement with the arm 38 of the lever 37, breakage of the bottles can not Voccurby reason of being crushed by the star wheel during the time theyr are being engaged thereby or under the influence thereof on their passage to the rotating table of the,V

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VVhatI claim is- Y v i, f 1. In a bottle crowning machine, a bottle timing device and means for positively driving the same, said timing device including means operable by a bottle for effecting con- Y nection between the timing device and its driving means, Vcomprising a continuously operable shaft, bottle feeding means loosely mounted on said 4shaft and means for effecting a driving connection between the bottle feeding means and the drive shaft operated by a bottle, and means for resiliently holding the bottle against said bottle feedingV means.

2. In a bottle crowning machine, a bottle timing device and means for positively driving the same, said timing device including means operable by a bottle for effecting connection between the timing device and its driving means, comprising al continuously operable shaft, bottle feeding -means loosely mounted'on said shaft and means for effect-- ing a driving connection between the-bottle feeding means andthe drive shaft operatedY tion, and means forresiliently pressing the bottle against said starwheels in their path of movement.

4. In a bottleV crowning machine, a bottle timingdevice and means for positively drivingthe same, said timing device including means operable by a bottle for affecting connection between the timing device and its driving means, a continuously operable shaft, bottle feeding means loosely mounted on said shaft, comprising an upper and lower star wheel, a collar provided with lugs equal in number to the projections in said star wheel, and a pivoted arm placed in the path of a bottle whereby said star wheels will be set in motion, whereby said bottle will be fed in the path of movement of the star wheels substantially the distance between two of their projections.

5. In a bottle crowning machine, a bottle timing' device and means for positively driving the same, said timing device including means operable by a bottle for eecting connection between the timing device and its driving` means, comprising a continuously operable shaft, bottle feeding means loosely mounted on said shaft and means for effecting a driving connection between the bottle feeding means and the drive shaft operated by a bottle, comprising a pivotally mounted arm placed in the path of a bottle, a collar provided with lugs and adapted for engagement with one end of said arm for automatically locking the bottle feeding means and its driving means.

6. In a bottle crowning machine, a bottle timing device and means for positively driving the same, said timing device including means operable by a. bottle for effecting connection between the timing device and its driving means, comprising a continuously operable shaft, bottle feeding means loosely mounted on said shaft and means for effecting a driving connection between the bottle feeding means and the drive shaft operated by a bottle, comprising a pivotally mounted arm placed in the path of a bottle, a collar provided with lugs and adapted for engagement with one end of said arm for automatically locking the bottle feeding means and its driving means, and means for resiliently holding the bottle against said bottle feeding means.

7. In a bottle crowning machine, a bottle timing device comprising a positively driven shaft provided with a plurality of notches, bottle feeding means loosely mounted upon said drive shaft, and means for automatically imparting rotation to said bottle feeding means when a bottle is in its proper position, comprising a pivotally mounted member, one end of which is in the path of and operated by said bottle, a collar provided with outwardly extending lugs loosely mounted on said shaft, and adapted for engagement with the other end of the pivotally mounted arm, and a pivotally mounted and spring-pressed dog adapted for engagement with one of the series of said notches in the shaft for setting said star wheels in operation.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature.

J OHN J. GAYNOR. 

